OCR Text |
Show Coumity. asked to i study power plaint procedures to make the change. Personnel problems on the Milford Road Crew were heatedly discussed. Chm. Pryor gave up the chair to Roberts to second a motion by Johnson to uphold the foreman's decision to fire Wayne Stewart. Lorraine Gillins was hired. A motion by Roberts to make him foreman fore-man and fire Clauss Marshall died without a second. Roberts moved that node-(Continued node-(Continued on Page 2) 2 be changed to one mile west of Ranges 8 and 9. This would bring the Roose -velt Springs geothermalarea into the hospital district and would place the fire district boundary at the top of the Mineral Range. At present the Milford Hospital and Fire District 2 service the west side of the Mineral Range. The change would make the boundary more practical for each service area. Attorney John Christiansen was instructed in-structed to check into the Richard Jefferson and John Maxey approached the Commissioners with a plan for the county to get into the geothermal power business and asked that they hire an attorney who specilizes in power plant operation, and a consulting firm to study the feasibility of a geothermal I plant. j They proposed that Beaver I County take advantage of the ' geothermal resource and get into the power business. They suggested the county could operate the plant and sell power in the county the same as Beaver City's Municipal Mun-icipal power. Beaver City now has to purchase much of their power and would benefit bene-fit from the plant as well as the rest of the county now being served by Utah" Power j and Light. A county plant could serve all municipali-j municipali-j ties as well as the rural areas. i They suggested Beaver County could sell the surplus sur-plus at a profit to other municipal mun-icipal operations. The suggestion sug-gestion was taken under consideration. con-sideration. They also proposed the boundary of Service District cision be ratified at the next regular meeting. Reauests for road Erradine- I . ville, Aletha Gillins; Milford 1, Dora Johnson and Mil-ford Mil-ford 2, Maudell Crane. Ten persons were allowed veterans exemptions to the extent of their disabilities. The clerk was instructed to advertise for the com -bined position of sanitarian, building inspector, health officer of-ficer and zoning administrator. administra-tor. A claim for damages, filed fil-ed by Don Yardley was denied, de-nied, on the grounds that no liability ,ol the county was shown, and the statue of limitations lim-itations was past. He hit a pile of dirt left in front of a cattleguard by someone. out west and in Ranch Canyon Can-yon were made by Mel Brad -shaw, and to the Boy Scout Camp by the Boy Scout Council. Coun-cil. Mike Prociv requested request-ed the County make a road through property he owns west of Milford. Arlan Jensen, BLM Beaver Bea-ver River Resource manager, man-ager, explained BLM activities activi-ties in Beaver County this year. They will evaluate eval-uate 60,000 acres in the north end of Pine Valley, develop Ryan Spring, fence Rock Corral picnic area, and put In cattle guard to keep livestock live-stock out. Install cattle -guards at North Creek, Man -derfield, Adamsville, the Jockeys andNada roads. The YACC will do most of the work. Scott Bullock of Bullock Bros. Engineers requested a change order to comply with revised plans on the Fair Grounds. The power company will be contacted for an estimate on lighting the rodeo arena. Another request to drop the minority min-ority clause on the Fair Complex was authorized. Bullock was hired to do the Engineering work on the road from Minersville to Milford. HERE'S MORE ABOUT COMMISSIONERS cisions be made by a single commissioner unless the other commissioners were contacted and that any de- Frank Elliott, civil de- fense director said he wanted want-ed to retire this" year and recommended Omni Cart-wright Cart-wright as his replacement. He requested the field hospital hos-pital at Milford be inventoried inventor-ied and brought up to date. Supt. Lynn Haslem thanked the board for their participation partici-pation and help with equipment equip-ment on the Beaver tennis courts. Grant Esplin invited the Commissioners on the Range Tour June 10th and asked the board to look into hiring someone on CETA to work with underprivileged persons, per-sons, through the Extension Service. Norman Beaumont was hired on the CETA program pro-gram for the courthouse project. pro-ject. They moved to provide their own indigent and transient tran-sient program and not participate par-ticipate in the state program . A letter from an attorney representing Edward Dicks and others stated the county would be held responsible for damage to property or weUs because of mineral exploration explora-tion activities along county & roads. Registration agents were bj appointed. Beaver 1, Ma-ybel Ma-ybel Smith; Beaver 2, Ella-yieen Ella-yieen Cartwright; Greenville, Bessie Edwards; Miners! |